Comments on: Getting more links from high ranking pages

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:22:53 +0000

Nice tip.. Thanks for sharing.

By: Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Nice tip – this could be really useful tactic for big news sites.

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:13:55 +0000

As far as I’ve been able to tell – using a few Googlewhacks on a couple of sites and pointing to a very crap site – the anchor text doesn’t get lost like a 301 does. In part I think this might be because you’re telling the search engines that it’s a totally different page so the anchor text counts and then you’re telling them that the original is the most relevant.

I’m thinking the best application for this is for large sites using a top navigation and a ‘fat footer’ with links in the page too. Homepages tend to rank better than any other page, and if you’re linking around the site multiple times from the homepage, why not try and get internal pages to rank better for other keywords – use Google trends to see related or rising searches you want to rank for and link to the same internal page with other anchor text.

Or you could spam the crap out of high ranking forum and blog pages pushing the ranking of one page for multiple keywords…

By: richardbaxterseo

richardbaxterseo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:41 +0000

Interesting post James. I can see what you’re doing and with the right methodology for KW targeting, it seems like a clever way to squeeze a few extra (similar) rankings for a single page.

I’d want to test this in some detail, if you’re saying rel=”canonical” doesn’t lose the anchor text like a 301 often can – then there are practical applications for this – particulary in large site architectures.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:44:43 +0000

Commenting on blogs that are part of the “do follow” movement, some of them with high Google PR, is another way to get link backs.